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when?  When do you think the ISPs will dump it?



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When people stop paying them?



I imagine 56k is as slow as... the psp's internet browser? It's been so long since I've had it.



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^ its so slow that it takes about 20 minutes to download 3MB mp3 song.

its obsolete here in UK, we even have fibre obtics now, i got 24mb adsl2 myself



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the adsl provider here uses it as an incentive for people to switch from cable.  They give 5-15 hours free dial-up per month with your adsl so that you can access the internet away from home.



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There are still remote and rural areas where the 56K model may be the best alternative for Internet service for quite a while.

I would hate to live there personally because I feel my cable slows down too much sometimes.

Of course, I also remember 300 baud -- and being told that was the fastest you would ever be able to send over the telephone lines. (56K, which is 51.6 in reality, is 172 times faster than that).

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Arent they obsolete already? I mean common, who uses them anymore? They are practically useless on todays sites...



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There a still a lot of places in the US with no form of broadband. US is just too expansive of a nation for those services to reach everywhere.

It'll be quite some time for it to be completely replaced.



It's been obsolete for years.



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